Audio- Glenn Beck claims "one of first things" Obama administration did "was nationalize all of the curriculum"

I had to listen to it to believe it. It's just a blatant lie. Hell, not even blatant, let's try schizophrenic. Remember the Texas textbook controversy Glenn?

La Cucaracha: Texas Textbooks edition

By GottaLaff

Thank you, Lalo:

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H/t: HarborGuy

Mississippi county schools ordered to comply with desegregation order

By GottaLaff

For those hippie stoners who want to relive the sixties, here you go:

A federal judge Tuesday ordered a rural county in southwestern Mississippi to stop segregating its schools by grouping African American students into all-black classrooms and allowing white students to transfer to the county's only majority-white school, the U.S. Justice Department announced.

The order, issued by Senior Judge Tom S. Lee of the U.S. District Court of Southern Mississippi, came after Justice Department civil rights division lawyers moved to enforce a 1970 desegregation case against the state and Walthall County.

I was listening to someone on a progressive radio station today (I wish I could remember who, and hopefully one of you will remind me) who was adamant that the most important issue of the day does not involve who ends up being the Supreme Court nominee or who wins the 2010 Congressional elections. No, it's President Obama's sluggish, molasses-like pace in filling federal judge slots, and replacing some with ones who might even have, you know, 21st century mindsets.

Currently, the guest reminded us, they are occupied by Rovian dreams-come-true and control our lives more than anyone in the country. And that's just the way BushCo wanted it.

We can see why replacing Bush era judges is mandatory. Stat.

"More than 55 years after Brown v. Board of Education, it is unacceptable for school districts to act in a way that encourages or tolerates the resegregation of public schools," said Thomas E. Perez, U.S. assistant attorney general in charge of the civil rights division, in a written statement. "We will take action so that school districts subject to federal desegregation orders comply with their obligation to eliminate vestiges of separate black and white schools."

You can read the entire piece here.

Texas school district apologizes for snubbing Obama speech

By GottaLaff

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File this under Ya Might Wanna Think About Where You're Bussin' Them Kids:

ARLINGTON, Texas — Arlington Superintendent Jerry McCullough issued a statement Friday apologizing for how the district handled President Obama's live speech on Tuesday.

The decision not to show the speech live to school children became particularly controversial after it became known that the district had previous plans to bus about 500 fifth-graders to attend an event with former President George W. Bush. [...]

"In retrospect, I can see how the district's decisions concerning these two events could be seen as favoring one event over another," McCullough said in his written statement. He later said, "I apologize that my decisions on behalf of the district have disappointed or hurt people."

"In retrospect"? It didn't occur to him until after the fact? Really?

Gee, it's a good thing he can now "see how" that kind of thing "could be seen as favoring" Bush over Obama. In retrospect, one can see how McCullough could be seen as a douchebag, too. I'm not saying he is one, I'm just saying one can see how he could be seen as one.

At least he tried to cover his as-- I mean, at least he apologized. There's a lot of that going around. In fact, I can see how Rushpublic apologies could be seen as pretty meaningless.